NHS 75 - Statistics and Sources

 

1. An estimated 296,467 contact hours of domiciliary care were provided by HSC Trusts in Northern Ireland during the survey week in September 2022. Source: Domiciliary care services for adults in Northern Ireland (nisra.gov.uk)
    
2. GP There were 1,448 GPs in 2022/23 (excluding Locums)
   Source: Family Practitioner Services GMS Statistics for Northern Ireland 2022/23
    
3. Over 464,000 health service funded dental examinations were performed on adults in 2022/23. This figure does not include dental care delivered by health Trusts.
   Source: Publication of Family Practitioner Services General Dental Statistics for Northern Ireland 2022/23 | Department of Health (health-ni.gov.uk)
4. During 2021/22, there were 510,834 inpatient and day case admissions to hospital in Northern Ireland.
   Source: Hospital Statistics: Inpatient and Day Case Activity Statistics 2021/22 (health-ni.gov.uk)
5. There were 44.6 million items dispensed in 2022/23
   Source: General Pharmaceutical Services and Prescribing Statistics (hscni.net)
6. There were 21,795 hospital births during 2021/22
   Source: Hospital Statistics: Inpatient and Day Case Activity Statistics 2021/22 (health-ni.gov.uk)
7. 40m diagnostic tests performed by labs
   Source: Health Minister launches major new £40m investment to improve diagnostic services | Department of Health (health-ni.gov.uk)
8. During 2021-22, the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service received a total of 200,969 calls and for those that required a resource despatched NIAS arrived at the scene for 179,424 incidents.
   Source: NIAS-Annual-report-and-accounts-2021-22 | NIAS (hscni.net)